Obama, Sebelius promote extreme views on abortion

Monday, September 24, 2012

Voters focussed on the abortion positions of the two campaigns are being distracted from a far more important issue — how the two parties will use power in office.

Until this presidency, all administrations — pro-choice and pro-life — have crafted legislation to their purpose, debated it openly, and presented it to us, the public, to approve or reject. As a result, Roe v. Wade has endured, with reasonable restrictions, according to the will and conscience of the American people as a whole.

Under President Obama, an extreme “reproductive rights” agenda has been put into place without debate or vote. As of Aug. 2, it is federal law under Obamacare, that any female capable of conceiving — girls as young as 12 years of age — will be able to procure contraception, abortion without restriction and sterilization, at taxpayer cost, and not necessarily with the knowledge or consent of her parents. (In Oregon, which embraces Obamacare wholeheartedly, the age of consent is 15.)

This mandate was not legislated into being. It was not debated or put to the American people for approval. It was simply decreed by Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Human Health and Services — a government official neither elected nor accountable to Congress or anyone else. There are dozens of health care issues in Obamacare in which Sebelius alone will determine what the law will, in fact, be. (Recall that Nancy Pelosi told us that we would have to pass Obamacare to find out what was in it. This is exactly what she meant.)

Whatever your position on abortion is, protect your right to power. Vote for the candidate who will work with Congress and the people to determine the laws under which we will live. This election isn’t about “women’s rights” — it’s about everyone’s rights.